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Non-routine medical examinations
These examinations are carried out for various reasons e.g. prior to departure on school
journeys; for ascertainment of suitability for ordinary school; at the request of the head
teacher, school nurse, parent, medical officer, etc.
CLEANSING OF VERMINOUS SCHOOLCHILDREN
This year the number of treatments for 'vermin and nits' decreased from 844 to 707. The
schools principally affected are those with high ratios of immigrant children on their rolls, some
of whom move on before adequate treatment can be completed. Attendances for treatment of scabies
at the bathing centres increased from 175 last year to 201 in 1969. A combined approach with the
co-operation of local schools, general practitioners and the borough cleansing station staff
continued during the year to ensure where possible that all known cases, and their family and
other contacts, are given a complete course of treatment.
HANDICAPPED PUPILS
Every possible care is given to ensure that any child with a handicap which might affect
his or her educational attainment is kept under careful review and consideration,whether he or
she is in an ordinary school or special school, and a register of all handicapped children is
maintained to ensure no child is lost sight of when he/she moves from school to school or borough
to borough.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN SCHOOLS
Notification is made by head teachers of pupils absent from school on account of infectious
and other illnesses. Where the notifications from any particular school warrant further
investigation special visits are made and any necessary investigations carried out, including
the taking of speciments for bacteriological examination, to ascertain the sources of, and contain,
the outbreak
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